Re: Cache-Control: no-store

Christian Biesinger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Bjarne <[email protected]> wrote:
> In "netwerk/test/unit/test_cacheflags.js" there
> is a test (second-last) for the combination
> "no-store" and nsIRequest.LOAD_FROM_CACHE. It
> expects to load the entry from cache. Can this
> be correct? (nsIRequest.LOAD_FROM_CACHE is the
> flag used by history, according to docs.)

Sigh. The docs are wrong. History uses VALIDATE_NEVER, which makes a
lot more sense.

LOAD_FROM_CACHE is used for LOAD_RELOAD_CHARSET_CHANGE and similar
cases, for which case it seems right to reuse no-store responses.

See the code here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/docshell/base/nsDocShell.cpp#9026

-christian
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